[Bioperl-l] Proposed name change for 1.3 (1.4)

Paul Edlefsen pedlefsen at systemsbiology.org
Sun Feb 23 09:56:35 EST 2003


On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 01:22:17 -0800
 Hilmar Lapp <hlapp at gmx.net> wrote:
> Quite honestly I don't like the short class names with the real
> meaning deferred to the namespace. It makes a couple thing easier if
> you don't have to examine the whole namespace hierarchy to find out
> that the particular SetI is actually about annotation sets, not e.g.
> feature sets.
> 
> For that very reason I also don't like the naming of
> SeqFeature::CollectionI.

I'm happy either way, so long as it is consistent.  But can you
explain?  My understanding is that one always has to qualify names with
their namespace anyway, so Bio::SeqFeature::CollectionI will never be
refered to simply as "CollectionI".  What are the couple of things that
are easier?

:Paul


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